Example sentences of "[subord] [conj] [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er I remember going to the doctor 's with me Mother and where as we sat in the surgery which was packed , eventually the old doctor come out of the door old . |
| 2 | So I said well you know , I ca n't just wind it up over the next six months , I said er what I wan na do I said is erm I got ta carry it on for that transit for that Orion till I finished anyway so it 's got ta go another year so I said well what I 'm feeling about doing I said is er just sort of keeping a finger in the pie I said , he said , if I 'd said tomorrow , if I had finished the whole the tomorrow I 've got ta buy a car I can buy it finance so I 'm gon na get no tax relief on the H P I get no depreciation no nothing like that I said so at least if I still self employed I can if I have the sort of two or three vehicles or whatever three , four , five vehicles but I said at least I can have some erm and I can then sort of they would be more utilised , where as I said at the moment we got more vehicles than we really need to keep full capacity so he said yeah , yeah fair enough then . |
| 3 | To that extent they ought to have wide circulation , except that they depend on the kind of painstaking preparation that Knussen had given them — the music sounded taught and nurtured rather than merely rehearsed . |
| 4 | Relatively little is known of the first great temples , which were built between 2000 and 1900 BC and destroyed by earthquakes in 1700 BC , except that they stood on the same sites as the later temples . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm not probing , you know , Joe , but we 've been together months now , nine of them , in fact , and I know no more about you now than on the day we met , except that you come from the wilds of Northumberland . |
| 6 | Nothing is known about his early life , except that he graduated from the University of Seville with a bachelor 's degree in logic and philosophy . |
| 7 | In them he isolates the main events of the Passion story for attention in particular ways in the sequence in which they appear in the Hours , except that he begins with the agony in the garden not included there . |
| 8 | Clause 4 has the same wording , except that it applies to the chief inspector for Wales . |
| 9 | I must admit the Hockin style was inclined to be more racy than that I used for the Gazette . |
| 10 | We 're a working band , although if you look at the balance sheets , yes , we 're royalty … ’ |
| 11 | lt would , for example , sound distinctly odd to have a tone-unit boundary between an article and a following noun , or between auxiliary and main verbs if they are adjacent ( though we may on occasions hesitate or pause in such places within a tone-unit ; some people who do a lot of arguing , notably politicians and philosophers , develop the skill of pausing for breath in such intonationally unlikely places because they are less likely to be interrupted than if they pause at the end of a sentence ) . |
| 12 | They could earn far more money in these positions than if they remained inside the universities , be assured of good meals daily and sometimes also have accommodation provided . |
| 13 | First , it might be argued that to adopt a rational basis/rightness approach would create more uncertainty than if we proceeded on the hypothesis that all errors of law are jurisdictional . |
| 14 | In addition , if you become more actively involved in Compact , you are more likely to influence its direction than if you sit on the sidelines . |
| 15 | If you 're in any doubt about it , do n't — you 'll do less harm if you leave it than if you prune at the wrong time . |
| 16 | His son admittedly would almost certainly be in less danger as a hostage than if he remained in the town . |
| 17 | Much as she loved Nora , she was sufficiently realistic about her cousin to know that whatever was beginning to develop in her niece would be much more likely to come to something if Constance remained with her in Surrey than if she returned to the north . |
| 18 | Except when we fall in the bath . ’ |
| 19 | Entering the measurements is quite straightforward , except when it comes to the armhole measurement for set-in sleeves . |
| 20 | ‘ I am a poorer man by some 200 £ than when I came to the Province ’ , he told Gould , apologising for his inability to pay his subscription to Birds of Australia , ‘ and my salary has been reduced to the lowest figure and is far below what I enjoyed as a private Gentleman . ’ |
| 21 | There can have been few more painful moments in Melvyn Bragg 's professional life than when he sat in the audience of a public performance where Barry Humphries , in the guise of Edna Everage , asked if anyone had read any of Bragg 's novels and nobody raised their hand . |
| 22 | Cos if I go to the college I might be able to get a flat . |
| 23 | cos if you concentrate on the kerb you tend to drive a bit too close to it |
| 24 | Cos cos it depends on the money . |
| 25 | Erm the if if if you turn to the er Selby submission on H one , you 'll find a table at the back of that submission and that 's where that 's the that 's where that the basis of that . |
| 26 | And I 'd I 'd like to turn to the point that erm Professor Lock raised in in terms of the potential clash of interest if if you like between the restraint of of the policy and the er the development proposals as regards Sel Selby district . |
| 27 | Well if if you aim for the microphone , |
| 28 | If if you add on the Greater York requirement of thirty hectares it goes up to about ninety five hectares . |
| 29 | In this modern Jurassic jungle so many live as singles in bedsitters , never even having a cup of coffee until after they get to the office . |
| 30 | The proceedings did not come to the defendant 's notice until after she returned from the United States . |